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May 2026 :: essay cluster published, “Modernist Elegy and Grief’s Counterpublics,” edited by David Sherman, on Modernism / modernity Print Plus.

2025-2027 :: The Elegy Project is pleased to have received a two-year Rutgers Global Grant to fund an on-going poetic and pedagogical collaboration with libraries and institutions in Scotland. More news soon on upcoming events!

2023-24 :: The Elegy Project recieves the 2023 Inaugural Community Megaphone grant from the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard to support research into experimental design and distribution techniques of broadsides and a new series of elegy cards.

THE ELEGY PROJECT IN THE NEWS

Anna Lamb, “Making universal connection through the intensely personal,” 2 May 2025. On The Elegy Project Workshop in The Harvard Gazette.

David Sherman & Karen Elizabeth Bishop, “The poetic elegies that can help us make space for our pandemic grief.” 3 January 2022. The Washington Post.